"The Philosopher and the Lover; to a Mistress Dying"
Sir William Davenant
Lover
Your Beauty, ripe, and calm, and fresh,
As Eastern Summers are,
Must now, forsaking Time and Flesh,
Add light to some small Star.
Philosopher
Whilst she yet lives, were stars decay'd,
Their light by hers, relief might find:
But Death will lead her to a shade
Where Love is cold, and Beauty blinde.
Lover
Lovers (whose Priests all Poets are)
Think ev'ry Mistress, when she dies,
Is chang'd at least into a Star:
And who dares doubt the Poets wise?
Philosopher
But ask not Bodies doom'd to die,
To what abode they go;
Since Knowledge is but sorrow's Spy,
It is not safe to know.
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"Zu Zavdykaan inde zu Amonu, kur a Sinama Morozhka"
Amonu
Vore ederavna, leznakh inde serkhaala, inde mynkhata,
Eki vyrjaati Eztraiji evon,
Tenzeva jetzta, krona inde kaan avnakhazhka,
Suuram kur a zetellkha nessur fozh.
Zavdykaan
Taka damya jetzta vifava, zetellkhai kormorovdai evogon,
Senn fozh nach damya, sezhuanno enkontragan:
Per Morne a'damya vol'pezarovu kur u mortuume
Kuusu amona evova thirri, inde ederavna nesvizda.
Amonu
Amonai (senn virestai evozhka teld lautaraani)
Penzen nin kaadi Sinama, kuan morova,
Kamvova kenesser ker a zetellkha:
Inde vur veleryovu neskessem zai lautaraani zavadai?
Zavdykaan
Per necht'vrakunat korpai avrakhai ker Morne,
Ker vaare tegu zavon;
Avair'zavaja zyna evova zu vizteilu nach desava,
Zavayam necht'evovu kesun.
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